Last combat troops leave Iraq

Soldiers with Company F, 52nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, cross the border into Kuwait Aug. 16, symbolizing the end of their year-long deployment and the departure of the last of the combat troops in Iraq.

Soldiers with Company F, 52nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 12th Field Artillery Regiment, 4th SBCT, 2nd Infantry Division, listen to a convoy brief Aug. 16 at Contingency Operating Base Adder, Iraq, before their final convoy out of theater. The 4th SBCT is the last combat brigade to leave Iraq.

A line of Strykers convoy in the early hours of Aug. 16, as part of the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division's, last patrol through Iraq as they leave theater. The 4th SBCT is the last combat brigade to leave theater.

A Soldier with the 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, waves as he and his fellow Strykers roll across the border from Iraq into Kuwait in the early morning hours of Aug. 19. The Soldiers convoyed their own vehicles out of Iraq after a year-long tour there, bringing troop levels in the country closer to the 50,000 mark.